A serious ouch…

We won’t get married anywhere near anything scary…

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Pink glasses round 2

Goodness, so much has happened since round 1. The dress arrived weeks ago, the stationery has been worked on for real and a lot of details regarding almost anything between heaven and earth related to weddings has been pondered not once but twice. Now I should put everything on hold for a couple of weeks but find it hard after having breathed wedding for such a long time again. I moved in the beginning of May and got my net back a couple of weeks later, which is when the planning was taken off hold. I can’t wait for the day to actually be here already!

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Pink glasses round 1

Yesterday I tried wedding dresses on for the first time and was surprised by the amount of fabric in A-line dresses. I went to a bridal shop here in Copenhagen and was met by a woman who clearly didn’t have a good day. She was distant and she annoyed me on more than one occasion, since it seemed like she was just following a protocol of some kind with no real interest in getting me all excited in the situation – and maybe secure me as a customer, as well… (FYI wedding dresses aren’t cheap in any way and most of them need some altering after the first fitting, so it’s more than a simple “ka-ching” with the credit card.) I was there by myself and could have used both positive and negative feedback, but the only thing she told me was that I definitely should go for the A-line shape and also that I can wear strapless dresses since my shoulders have a clear look. Wonder what unclear shoulders look like?

Something good came out of the experience anyway – I now know my size. Wedding dresses change surprisingly much in size, even if they are from the same manufacturer, so I decided to look some more on the net. After having tried five dresses on, I managed to force a short “good bye” from the lady and left with no intention of coming back. For reference I called them today to get the price of my dress of choice and got the same lady on the thread – as sour and distant as yesterday. She couldn’t provide me with a specific price and all I got from her was “Oh, well, it depends on the model and on how much lace there is on it, so the Pronovias dresses cost around 8000 DKK or more”. Great. I wonder why it is so difficult to check the database for a simple figure.

So a Pronovias of the 2009 collection it will be (but I won’t announce the specific model since my guy might read this blog). I paid for it today and had a more than pleasant experience at House of Brides; they certainly know how to treat customers well. Now it takes something between three and five months before it arrives, depending on whether they have it on stock or not, and then the alterations might add a month or more, so it will be ready just in time for the big day.

Finally I can relax a bit as far as pink glasses go. The chuch and priest have been booked since November last year and after some thinking the party place has been reserved, as well. The florist has been consulted, we’re looking for a photographer as we speak and soon the detective’s work needs to focus on finding nice musicians. The only trouble so far was when a woman at the church office called a few weeks ago to inform me about a double booking of the church – “Excuse me!?” Apparently we were supposed to get married in sync with high screams from the baby to be christened… How charming! Eventually the baby was chucked out, so now it’s all about romance and eternal love.

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An honest blush on bridal cheeks?

This video can speak for itself, but don’t miss the comment from Dogroy1. For some reason I am horrified; even though I knew this happens all the time in the fashion industry, it’s still disgusting to see it happen before one’s very eyes. I should start a new category, “The not so beautiful human being”, where I could post idiotic endeavours of the human mind. Sigh.

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Four weddings and a funeral minus three weddings and a funeral

Four weddings and a funeral minus three weddings and a funeral equals one wedding. For the equation to be more beautiful, there should maybe be a couple of parentheses, especially if one intends to start multiplying and dividing later, but from a verbal point of view it looks better without, so let’s forget about them shall we. So, what about the wedding then? I’m getting married. My love and I got engaged last November and the wedding will take place in September this year.

I already feel the need to rant about the arrangements, but since I don’t want to kill my immediate surroundings with a never-ending flood of pink blahblah, I have decided to vent here once in a while. Fragments will not, I repeat not, join all the awful wedding blogs that are suffocating corners of the cyberspace with their similar complaints about the horrors of not finding just the perfect dress even after trying the hundredth one on in the thirtieth shop and oh-my-god-I’ve-reached-the-end-of-the-line-what-shall-I-do-oh-my-god-oh-my-god-I-can’t-get-married-I-just-caaaan’t… That’s the reality of some brides, believe it or not! Actually it is rather interesting out of a purely academic view – I wonder whether the bridezillas and their kind have already been the target of sociological research?

I might be forced to join the population of brides under investigation, but hopefully I never end up being one of the lucky sample bridezillas. So far things are looking fairly good, my groom is happy about giving input and voicing opinions – in fact he would be annoyed if I made all the decisions myself since it is supposed to be our day, not just mine – and the most important things have already been covered, but more about that later. I hope the months up until the wedding day will be as blissful as they have been so far, but one never knows what kind of a silly crisis one might end up in, because there certainly are many things that can go wrong, at least if one is to believe in articles such as “How to make the Life-Saving Wedding Day Emergency Kit”. You would not believe the things in a Kit like that! God forbid…

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